The 29th Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair will be held in the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (PTA), right behind Amsterdam’s Central Railway Station, on the wharf of ‘Het IJ’. This location is easily accessible by public transport, and there is a car park for 400 cars, with taxi and bus ranks.

The coming fair will be held: 

October 23-25, 2008

An illustrated catalogue with contributions by all members of the Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (NVvA) and foreign participants to the fair, together with a fair admission ticket (7.50 Euro incl. postage), Please order here.

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pictures of the recent bookfairs

For Participants: Application Form

Last year's Lectures :

Lezing door H. Hazelhoff Roelfzema

De reis van Hendrik Brouwer in 1643 over het traject van Pernambuco naar Valentijnsbaai.

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Last Year's Special exhibition: "Op expeditie!". Nederlandse reisboeken en reisverhalen.

The Royal Dutch Geographical Society ('Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap'' - KNAG), showed at the fair a selection of their collection.

The Society - founded in 1873 - has some 4000 members. In 1880 the library and map collection of the young Dutch Geographical Society  were entrusted to the care of the Amsterdam University Library. Just before the First World War the collection was expanded considerably with the purchase of a complete, richly varied collection of atlas maps from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Over the years, particularly thanks to donations and exchange, there emerged a collection now comprising almost 135,000 maps and 4,500 atlases, early and modern.
Read more about the map collection (in Dutch) >>

This Antiquarian Book Fair, The Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair, is officially endorsed by the largest professional association of antiquarians worldwide, the International League of Antiquarian Book Dealers (ILAB) and organized by the Dutch Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, the NVvA.